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   A Stupid Liberal DemocRAT Over the Line.   
      
      
   Publication:The New York Sun;  Date:Apr 12, 2004;  Section:New York;   
   Page:4   
      
      
   A DemocRAT Over the Line   
      
   ALICIA COLON acolon@nysun.com   
      
   It’s not often that I get absolutely boiling mad, but my level of   
   tolerance for DemocRATs is fast approaching an all-time low.   
      
   It’s bad enough that their efforts to regain control of power in   
   Washington is driving irresponsible senators like Edward Kennedy and   
   Robert Byrd to make ludicrous public statements that embolden those   
   attacking our military in Iraq.   
      
   Now it appears as if some ambitious local politicians have completely   
   lost all sense for the need to maintain national security.   
      
   City Council Member Bill Perkins has actually proposed legislation to   
   allow legal immigrants to vote, and when I first read about it, my   
   reaction was to ask: “Is he crazy? ”This blatant grab for the Hispanic   
   vote is over the line even for a DemocRAT.   
      
   To make sure I wasn’t overreacting I called up every member of my   
   family (all DemocRATs), every Hispanic friend and neighbor, and then I   
   polled every reader on my e-mail list who is Hispanic. All questioned   
   his sanity.   
      
   That this is even considered a serious proposal is beyond belief.   
      
   Mayor Bloomberg issued a statement that immigrants should go about   
   becoming a citizen before getting the right to vote. Naturally, Mr.   
   Perkins, a DemocRAT from Harlem, blasted him.   
      
   “The essence of citizenship is not simply the right to vote,” Mr.   
   Perkins said.“The right to vote is the essence of democracy. To me,   
   the responsible thing to do, the right thing to do...is expand the   
   franchise and to be inclusive.”   
      
   Mr. Perkins, America is not Mc-Donald’s, a Burger King, or any other   
   franchise. Do you think you’d be able to go to work in any foreign   
   country and be expected to vote in their elections?   
      
   This is just the latest effort to influence the so-called Hispanic   
   vote. Freddie Ferrer, a potential mayoral candidate, reportedly has   
   expressed support for this legislation. May I remind the DemocRATs   
   that just because a politician is Hispanic does not necessarily mean   
   he represents all Hispanics.   
      
   It becomes tiresome to insist that we are not a monolithic community.   
   Hispanics come from many different nations. Some have been here for   
   many years; some, like myself, were born here. Some are citizens, some   
   are not. The largest group of immigrants may speak one language, but   
   we do not all think alike and it is infuriating when one politically   
   party insists that we do.   
      
   The idea America should make it possible for anyone with a green card   
   who is not a citizen to vote for the president is mind-boggling,   
   especially post-September 11.   
      
   My husband works at a large Midtown hotel, which has a multi-ethnic   
   staff. So I asked him to conduct a mini-poll to test the staff’s   
   reaction to Mr. Perkins’s legislation. His query turned into quite a   
   firestorm of heated debate.   
      
   Those immigrants who were naturalized citizens were definitely opposed   
   and charged that this legislation would dilute the entire   
   naturalization process. It took one bellman from Haiti 10 years to   
   become a citizen.   
      
   But then a woman housekeeper from Guatemala, who is a green card   
   holder, remarked that if you come to this country and pay taxes, you   
   should be able to vote. She was severely rebuffed by the naturalized   
   citizens who informed her that those taxes were for the services   
   provided by the government such as police and fire protection,   
   sanitation and schools.   
      
   Why, she was asked, should immigrants who come here and send their   
   wages back home to buy land in their homelands have any say in how   
   this country is run?   
      
   The DemocRATs have been exploiting the Hispanic vote for quite a   
   while. Does anybody remember the Citizenship USA program in 1996,   
   which waived security requirements for naturalization of more than   
   75,000 immigrants with criminal records. This scheme to subvert the   
   1996 election (which worked) is reported in detail by David Shippers,   
   in his book “Sellout.”   
      
   Mr. Shippers, a lifelong DemocRAT who voted for Clinton/Gore twice,   
   writes that Team Gore pressured the INS to suspend background   
   investigations on applicants for American citizenship. This program   
   was an effort to naturalize a million immigrants who might be more   
   likely to vote DemocRATic. Twenty percent of the convicted felons who   
   were naturalized committed crimes within two years, meaning these new   
   citizens robbed, raped, and murdered thousands of Americans. About   
   168,000 immigrants were naturalized without proper fingerprinting and   
   FBI criminal history checks.   
      
   The hosts of that new liberal station Air America, which,   
   incidentally, bumped a local black station, WLIB, to air a daily   
   diatribe against President Bush, never fail to mention how he stole   
   the 2000 election.   
      
   They never mention the other DemocRATic voter-fraud allegations such   
   as giving away cigarettes in Milwaukee, touring the jails to register   
   misdemeanor crooks, signing up feeble nursing home residents   
   as DemocRATs, and the mysterious disappearance of a 50,000-vote Bush   
   lead in Florida late on election night.   
      
   The voter registration form makes it clear that only citizens may   
   vote. Penalty for making a false statement is a fine of $5,000 or up   
   to four years in jail. This needs to be enforced!   
      
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